Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 09:36:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Scott "Tuc" Ellentuch at T-B-O-H <ml@t-b-o-h.net> To: petermatulis@yahoo.ca (Peter) Cc: Scott Tuc Ellentuch at T-B-O-H <ml@t-b-o-h.net>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Anyone using sysutils/nut ? Message-ID: <200605241336.k4ODajd1078702@himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com> In-Reply-To: <20060523042011.54834.qmail@web60020.mail.yahoo.com>
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> > I'm going by : > > > > /usr/local/share/doc/nut/shutdown.txt > > > > Subsection "How you set it up", item #2 : > > > > 2. Edit your shutdown scripts to check for the POWERDOWNFLAG so they > > know > > when to power off the UPS. You must check for this file, as you > > don't > > want this to happen during normal shutdowns! > > > > You can use upsdrvctl to start the shutdown process in your UPS > > hardware. Use this script as an example, but change the paths to > > suit your system: > > My bad. I did edit rc.shutdown on both a 5.4 and a 6.0 system with no > troubles. The end of my file shows this: > > # Inserted next 5 lines March 13, 2006 for UPS shutdown. > if (test -f /etc/killpower) > then > echo "Killing the power, bye!" > /usr/local/libexec/nut/upsdrvctl shutdown > fi > > echo '.' > exit 0 > But doesn't that immediately shut down your system causing it to need FSCK when it comes back up? Thanks, Tuc
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